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Good Night, Sweet Prince
Our critic assesses the achievement of Martin Amis, Britain’s most famous literary son.
Columns That Scrutinized, and Skewered, the Literary World
“NB by J.C.” collects the variegated musings of James Campbell in the Times Literary Supplement.
After Writing About Mental Illness, Kay Redfield Jamison Turns to Healers
In “Fires in the Dark,” Jamison, known for her expertise on manic depression, delves into the quest to heal. Her new book, she says, is a “love song to psychotherapy.”
A Classic of Golden Age Detective Fiction Turns 100
Dorothy L. Sayers dealt with emotional and financial instability by writing “Whose Body?,” the first of many to star the detective Lord Peter Wimsey.
Did She Cheat? A Century Later, a Novel’s Mystery Still Stumps.
“Dom Casmurro,” by Machado de Assis, teaches us to read — and reread — with precise detail and masterly obfuscation.
For ‘The Late Americans,’ Grad School Life Equals Envy, Sex and Ennui
Brandon Taylor’s novel circulates among Iowa City residents, some privileged, some not, but all aware that their possibilities are contracting.
A Brief Guide to Martin Amis’s Books
The acclaimed British novelist was also an essayist, memoirist and critic of the first rank.
The Best Romance Novels of the Year (So Far)
Looking for an escapist love story? Here are 2024’s sexiest, swooniest reads.
What Book Should You Read Next?
Finding a book you’ll love can be daunting. Let us help.
Danny McBride Thinks Men Learned All the Wrong Lessons From Movies
The writer and actor, known for his profane comedic antiheroes, likes to find universal truths in human flaws.
Why Is It So Bad to Let A.I. Do My Thinking for Me?
In “The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI,” the renowned tech critic Cory Doctorow tries to find a good way to coexist with artificial intelligence.
James Bradley, Co-Author of ‘Flags of Our Fathers,’ Dies at 72
His best-selling book celebrated the servicemen in the stirring photograph of the U.S. flag-raising on Iwo Jima. One, it was long believed, was his father.
Did Movies Ruin Everything?
How the film writer David Thomson found himself in a lover’s quarrel with cinema — and America.
What Is a Ghost? Let Kids Decide.
Ghosts in stories for children are a blank canvas. You can show your audience a ghost and, if you play it right, almost just leave it at that.
Jean Houston, ‘Midwife of Souls’ Who Advised Hillary Clinton, Dies at 89
The author of books like “The Possible Human,” she held workshops that drew on mythology, psychology and the experiential ethos of Esalen. But she refused to be called a guru.
Danny Simmons, Painter and Activist From a Creative Family, Dies at 72
The older brother of the music mogul Russell Simmons and the rapper Joseph Simmons, he made his own way as an artistic and entrepreneurial force in Brooklyn.
‘We Need Plot Twists’: Behind the Scenes of Trump’s Second Term
In “Regime Change,” two New York Times journalists offer a riveting chronicle of the weird fusion of reality and show business in the White House.
5 New Books We Love This Week
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
A Father and Son Visit a Founding Father
I emigrated from the Soviet Union decades ago, and recently toured Thomas Jefferson’s home with my American-born history-buff son.
Robert Thurman, Leading Interpreter of Tibetan Buddhism, Dies at 84
A former monk who was also Uma Thurman’s father, he made sure Buddhism retained its intellectual and spiritual rigor as it spread through the West.
Carlo Ginzburg, Who Told the History of the Obscure, Dies at 87
In books like “The Cheese and the Worms,” he helped push beyond the story of great events and leaders, entering the minds and hearts of peasants.
Gregory Williams, Academic With an Uncommon Perspective on Race, Dies at 81
As a child, he discovered that his father — and therefore he and his siblings — had been passing for white. For the rest of his life, he identified as Black.
Best-Selling Memoirist Sues Classmate Who Said She Used Her Story
Amy Griffin contended that she was defamed when a former classmate accused her in a lawsuit of appropriating parts of her story of being sexually abused for “The Tell.”
Call It a ‘Book-cation’ or a ‘Readaway,’ Literary Travel Is Having a Moment
Resort book clubs, tour companies, hotel libraries and a growing number of literary festivals are offering readers new ways to indulge their interests.
The ‘Paddington’ Musical Is a Hit in London. Next Stop: Broadway.
The show, which revisits the story of a marmalade-loving bear, plans to open next April at the Hirschfeld Theater in New York.
From Joyce Carol Oates, a ‘Frenzy’ of Fear and Foreboding
The stories in her new collection deal in jagged emergencies and in wounds both physical and psychic.
The Mysterious History of the Female Body
In “Presence,” the historian Erin Maglaque pieces together the fragments of early modern womanhood.
Will It Take Superpowers, Spirits and Reincarnation to Save the Planet?
Fascinating if overstuffed, Amitav Ghosh’s “Ghost-Eye” connects the mystifying case of a girl in Calcutta to the global climate crisis.
Do You Know These U.S. History Books Adapted for the Screen?
Books about pivotal moments in America’s past are often transformed into films or television shows. Try this quiz to see if you can identify these five adaptations.
They Blew Up the Nord Stream Pipeline. Some Call Them Heroes.
In “The Nord Stream Conspiracy,” the investigative journalist Bojan Pancevski tells a high-stakes international war story in blockbuster prose.
Jane Yolen, Whose Books for Children Drew on Everyday Life, Dies at 87
She wrote some 450 books, including novels, poetry and nonfiction in many genres. One critic called her “a modern equivalent to Aesop.”
A Spunky History of Newspapers Adds Color to the Black and White
In “Empire of Ink,” Alex Wright describes how newfangled technologies and disruptive personalities have regularly unsettled the American media.
Seeing Herself in the Lives of 19th-Century Vermont Lesbians
Leaning on a rich written record, the graphic novelist Tillie Walden used nearby resources to visualize the true story of seamstresses who shared a home for decades.
David Plowden, Who Photographed a Disappearing America, Dies at 93
With his haunting images of steam locomotives, steel mills and Midwestern farms, the celebrated lensman revealed the poetry in the artifacts of manual labor.